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Okayama-jo
The black weatherboarding gives it the name Crow Castle. It pairs with Korakuen across the river.
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Shizutani Gakko
Among the oldest public schools for commoners anywhere in the world. Its lecture hall is a National Treasure.
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Bitchu Matsuyama-jo
A surviving keep, standing higher than any other in Japan. It floats on a sea of cloud.
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Kurashiki Bikan
White-walled storehouses of a shogunal territory. The Ohara Museum stands on the same street.
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Ohashi Residence
A merchant family enriched by salt and land reclamation, permitted a samurai-style gate their rank shows off.
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Former Nozaki Residence
The house of a salt-field magnate, its parlours and six storehouses surviving intact across a hectare.
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Kibitsu Shrine
Two hipped-gable roofs joined side by side in a form found in only this one building, with a 360-metre corridor down the hill.
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Joto District, Tsuyama
A merchants' quarter along the old Izumo highway, 1.2 kilometres of Edo and Meiji townhouses.
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Hirokane Residence
Castle-scale stone walls raised on a mountainside to carry one house - copper and pigment money made visible.
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Raikyuji Garden
An early garden by Kobori Enshu, made in his twenties: clipped azalea as waves, stones as islands.
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Yakage-juku
The only post town where both official inns survive as Important Cultural Properties, with the lords' rooms intact.
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Bitchu Kokubunji
A five-storey pagoda standing alone in farmland, an Edo tower on a Nara temple site - two eras in one view.
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Katsuyama and its Noren
One dyer suggested each house hang its own curtain; a preservation district gained a layer of colour.
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Tamashima District
A cotton and salt port, with the temple where the monk Ryokan trained on the hill above it.
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Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum
A fan-shaped locomotive shed and turntable kept working - industrial geometry left legible.
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Saidaiji Eyo Festival
Nine thousand naked men contend for a wooden token - a mass of bodies that reads as moving sculpture.
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Kurashiki Ivy Square
An 1889 spinning mill converted rather than demolished - an early case of industrial reuse in Japan.
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Takahashi Samurai District
Samurai houses below the mountain castle, where the relation of fortress to town can be read in the terrain.